A Happy Hippie’s Travel Gap Year
I was a senior-executive by the time I was twenty, was going nowhere and that I needed to broaden my travel horizons.
The Nature of the Orange Rat
What’s the connection, dear reader, between fruit, the word black, the sea and Covid-19? Okay, I can see you’re flummoxed so I’ll tell you. The fruit in question is oranges, as in the in the picture above. Yes, I know...
Pandemic, Armageddon and Chips
During this Coronavirus lockdown I haven’t really wanted to do too much other than what I’ve been doing, i.e., writing. My normal work has been disrupted so much that there’s no business coming in, so my writing has been...
The American Trump Epidemic
The virus is the be all and end all that has come to dominate our lives since 2016.
The Slow Tick of a Time Bomb on Your Pets
The current lockdown here in Cyprus means we can’t go outside our premises just for the hell of it, except to walk our dog. For any other purpose we need to send a text message to a special number giving a reason why we want to go out, our...
In Cyprus, What Goes Up, Must Come Down
I’ve just watched a fly-by of a police helicopter. Never normally seen in this neck of the woods, but increasingly being put to use to detect illegal gatherings. Sounds like the opening line from a story about a police state, like something...
No! Pandemic Ignorance is Not Bliss, It’s Stupidity.
Yesterday the Cyprus government stiffened their measures against Coronavirus Covid-19. Their original response was enforcing social distancing, banning movement of people and banning people from interacting. All government measures were designed...
A Place in the Cyprus Shade
A Place in the Shade
Please Sir, Can I Leave the Pandemic Room?
We have to seek permission to go out via a text message to an SMS number. We tap this 4 digit number in and answer the questions then we will receive permission to go outside… we hope.
Tumbling Tom’s Cyprus
With the advent of an almost worldwide lock-down due to the Coronavirus pandemic, a lot of people are spending more time in their gardens.
Just One Healthy Touch
at least she won’t run out of toilet paper
It’s the Little Things in a Pandemic That Matter
I wrote this in March 2020. So many have died and we’re now looking at a potential second wave. How the world has changed.
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